Different engines how science drives fiction and fiction drives science - Brake, Mark; Hook, Neil (Macmillan, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
A plurality of habitable worlds : the age of discovery -- Remembrance of things to come : the mechanical age -- Pulp fiction : the astounding age -- Cold war and heat death : the atomic age -- Stranger in a strange land : the new age -- Information wants to be free : the computer age -- The Frankenstein century : the age of biology